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Title: Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927
Subjects: Botany Gardening Forests and forestry
Publisher: New York : The Garden and forest publishing co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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m Japan in 1894. Mr. Michael Barker writesthat seeds of the same plant were also received from Japanby Mr. John Lewis Childs, of Floral Park, where it liasbeen grown extensively and proves to be a meritoriousplant. In Mr. Childs garden it grows from twelve to eigh-teen inches high, erect and densely branched with smoothstems well furnished with ovate, acuminate leaves, thelargest of which are six inches long. The dull white flow-ers with greenish centre are not showy, and are bornesingly on short pedicels in the axils of the leaves. The in-flated calyces are three inches in diameter when fully grown,and they then turn from their original to the vivid colorswe have described. Since it is said to be hardy in Englandit is probable that the new plant is a perennial like P. Al-kekengi, but it has been treated by Mr. Childs so far as anannual, and its hardiness and duration here remain to betested. Plants raised under cover and set out in the open September 23, 1896.) Garden and Forest. 385
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Fg. Si-—Evonymua obovatus.—See page 384. ground as early as the weather will permit produce fromthe axils of almost every leaf their large and glowing-calyces from the latter part of August onward. Carpinus Caroliniana.—The American Hornbeam, in some places called the Blue Beech or Water Beech, isfound along the banks of streams from the Dominion ofCanada to Florida, and readies its greatest size in thesouthern Appalachian region and in eastern Texas and 386 Garden and Forest. (Number 44S. southern Arkansas, where it is sometimes forty feet high,with a trunk two feet in diameter. It is usually a smaller,closely branched, spreading tree with smooth, close, graybark and a stem that is fluted and furrowed in a picturesqueway. The leaves are dark bluish green in summer, andturn to orange and scarlet late in autumn. Altogether, thisHornbeam, with its airy and graceful crown, is one of thebest of the trees of its size for use in our parks and gardens.Like many American trees, it has b

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